Distribution of Hydraulic Head in the McMurray Hydrostratigraphic Unit (gridded data, ASCII format)

Publication Type
Data
Published Date
Topic
Water Resource
Publication ID
DIG 2020-0042
Publication ID Extended
Digital Data 2020-0042
Publication
Abstract

This grid represents the distribution of hydraulic head in the McMurray hydrostratigraphic unit (HSU). It is a result of a geostatistical model which was constructed using publicly available data from the following sources:

  1. Alberta Environment and Parks' (AEP) Alberta Water Well Information Database (AWWID)
  2. Cenovus groundwater monitoring wells pertaining to the Environmental Impact Assessment of the Cenovus TL ULC Telephone Lake In-Situ Project
  3. Pressure data from drillstem tests from oil and gas wells

The hydraulic head surface was mapped at a regional scale using many years of data, thus providing a good indication of regional groundwater flow within the unit rather than site-specific values.

Citation

Nakevska, N. (2021): Distribution of hydraulic head in the McMurray hydrostratigraphic unit (gridded data, ASCII format); Alberta Energy Regulator / Alberta Geological Survey, AER/AGS Digital Data 2020-0042.

Place Keywords
alberta, canada, cold lake, fort mcmurray, northeast alberta
Place Keywords NTS
73e, 73l, 73m, 74d, 74e, 83h, 83i, 83j, 83o, 83p, 84a, 84b, 84g, 84h
Theme Keywords
drillstem test, geology, groundwater, hydrogeology, mcmurray aquifer, mcmurray formation, oil sands, potentiometric surface